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. 2014 Jan 11;31(3):295–306. doi: 10.1007/s10815-013-0152-5

Table 6.

Effects of exogenous native OSFs during IVM on subsequent embryo development

Treatments Pre-treatment of OSFs1 Number of oocytes Cleavage2 Blastocyst on day 53 Blastocyst on day 64 Hatching blastocyst on day 65 ICM6 TE6 TCN6
Control N/A 152 87.5 ± 1.6a 52.2 ± 7.2 67.4 ± 6.0a 53.3 ± 5.6a 18.7 ± 1.9a 51.1 ± 3.4 69.8 ± 4.3
COC + DO 0h [GV] 155 95.5 ± 2.2b 57.5 ± 2.6 77.2 ± 4.4a,b 66.9 ± 2.8a,b 22.0 ± 1.7a,b 52.4 ± 2.4 74.4 ± 3.5
COC + DO 3h + FSH + CCs 153 94.8 ± 1.1a,b 65.5 ± 1.7 83.4 ± 2.6b 74.5 ± 2.8b 24.8 ± 1.3b 55.7 ± 2.7 80.5 ± 3.4

Values with different superscripts within a column are statistically different (P < 0.05)

Data are presented as means ± SEM of four replicate experiments. Each replicate experiment consisted of 37–40 oocytes

1See Fig. 1 and Table 1 for explanation of experimental design

2Percentage of cleaved embryos per total oocytes

3Percentage of blastocysts generated 96–100 h post-fertilization per cleaved embryo

4Percentage of blastocysts generated 100–125 h post-fertilization per cleaved embryo

5Percentage of hatching blastocysts generated 100–125 h post fertilization per cleaved embryo

6Mean blastocyst cell numbers following differential staining of 13–22 blastocysts